Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
Dirty energy special interests are desperate to defeat efforts in Congress to pass legislation that would put our country on the road to a clean energy economy. So desperate, in fact, that the oil and coal industries together spent a record $115 million last year on...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
So, we know the 'hidden costs' of dirty energy top $120 billion a year for Americans. But what about the benefits of clean energy? Try this on for size: new analysis shows that adopting comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation could create...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Kudos to Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) for bird-dogging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the need to regulate pollution from coal-fired power plants. Yesterday, Rep. Markey sent a letter to EPA requesting information on the agency's findings related to the...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
There's a new TV ad airing these days in the D.C. area and it represents a new low in the polluter PR handbook. Paid for by an oil industry-funded front group, this ad ridiculously purports to claim that heat-trapping atmospheric carbon dioxide pollution causing global warming...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
The clean energy economy is upon us -- but will the U.S. heed the call? That's the gist of today's Washington Post story with this stark headline: Asian Nations Could Outpace U.S. in Developing Clean Energy. Excerpt: President Obama...continued→
